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Notable Women of Portland
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Tracy J. Prince and Zadie Schaffer
Rhome
, January 31, 2020
It's hard for the modern reader to imagine a world where women had almost no opportunity to shine without the benefit of a male patron. This book does a good job of telling many of the untold stories of women operating in a man's world. And its timely appearance just 5 months after the 2017 Women's March on Washington makes it that much more relevant. But there is always a risk to keeping to the format dictated by the publisher, Arcadia, which limits the number of pages and words for subtitles. Several people might feel that too many women were not mentioned, while others might feel that not enough time was spent explaining the story of the important women noted. Notable Women of Portland threads that fine line of describing a great assortment of women from many walks of life that defined Portland's history while giving the juicy details of what made them important enough to make it into the book. The book also has a bonus in daylighting for the first time new scholarly research on Native American presence in and around the Portland area before the city was established in 1851. Dare I say that this makes the perfect Mother's Day book or graduation gift for that special daughter in your life? The stories are certainly inspiring enough to motivate the next generation.
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Culture Wars in British Literature: Multiculturalism and National Identity
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Tracy J. Prince
Rhome
, October 08, 2012
This book delivers on the promise of its provocative title. Although obviously written with the care of an academic, Culture Wars is suprisingly accessible and provides a nice history lesson about the evolution of cultural identity in an aging empire, post Pax-Britannica. Key chapters address class issues, and the problems concerning "black", Jewish, and other identities as expressed through the lens of British literature over the past 100 years. In this transitional age where a war of cultures exist, despite the ease with which ideas are shared across the Internet, this book provides a welcome reflection of where Britain (and by extension ourselves) have come from and perhaps its future.
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Portland's Goose Hollow
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Tracy J. Prince
Rhome
, May 26, 2011
Blaise Pascal, the French Mathematician from the 1600s, is famously quoted as apologizing in a letter for its length because he did not have the time to make it shorter. Such sentiments were also shared by Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Cicero, Thomas Jefferson, Einstein, and others. It is obvious that Tracy Prince spent an enormous amount of time putting this book together. The sheer amount of information crammed into the deep subtitles for each marvelous picture, and her Introduction, is astounding. This book could indeed have been much longer; but it would not have contained any more information. And the author's work in synthesizing the information in easy-to-digest chunks is much more instructive than any large tomb could be. It was obviously meticulously researched, and you truly get a feel for the real history of a very interesting and eclectic Portland neighborhood. Hats off to Dr. Prince for a job well done on a story that needed telling.
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